It Starts With a Question

This takes place between volume 3 and 4 of the manga.
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The chime that hung on the door, signalled that another customer had left satisfied. Today was a quiet day compared to others, only a few customers had appeared, which was a good thing, because it meant no running around from one place to another for orders.

Touka sighed as she leaned against the wall, staring outside at the people passing by, despite the season, it wasn't such a cold day. Mid-November, sure a harsh wind once in a while and the trees had almost lost all their leaves, but she could go out in a jacket and not freeze to death.

Her attention was drawn to a small child who kept skipping happily with some kind of sweet in her hand, licking it repeatedly. The teenager frowned, she always wondered what humans liked about sweets, it's not even that healthy for them. Then again, she could say the same thing about all the other human food. Yoriko once tried to talk her into having pizza together after a long day of finishing their homework together. She almost gagged, but deep inside she was curious about how the humans tasted the food, what was their definition of sweet, sour, dry or salt.

She kept wondering, until her thoughts got interrupted by the sound of the door opening and chiming bells. She looked up, wondering if another costumer had arrived, until she saw the all too familiar eye patch and sank back in her position. "Oh, it's only you." The high school girl mumbled.

Kaneki sweat dropped "Also, hello Touka-chan." The boy stopped as he glanced around the almost empty coffee shop. "It's surprisingly quiet today."

Touka only answered with a nod. "The manager went out to get more coffee, he should be back soon."

"I see..."

An awkward silence fell over the two as Kaneki returned in his uniform. Touka just kept staring outside the window, ticking her finger against the counter.

The half-ghoul glanced at his colleague uncomfortable as he tried to come up with something to break the silence. "Uhm, Touka-chan..."

"How did you used to describe human food?"

The college student blinked at the girl's sudden question. "What?"

"When you were still human, how did the food taste?"

Kaneki backed away nervously as Touka got a bit too close to his taste. He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "It's not easy to explain. All human food has various flavours and everyone has a different taste. It depends on what you like and dislike."

Touka frowned. "So you're not going to explain it?"

"I can try, but it's not easy, especially since you can't experience the taste of human food as humans can."

Without any warning Touka grabbed Kaneki by the back of his collar and checked in case there were any customers, which luckily for her weren't and dragged the boy upstairs. "We're taking a break." She responded before the raven-haired male could ask anything.

The female ghoul pushed Kaneki on the couch, in the room where Hinami used to sleep before she moved in with Touka and gave him a strict stare while crossing her arms in front of him. "Tell me how human food tastes to humans!"

"Why do you want to know in the first place?" Kaneki asked.

"None of your business, dumbass!"

The boy sighed, he should have seen it coming. He decided to give in to the tomboy's demands, he figured if he didn't, she'd beat the crap out of him. "Human food has different flavours, you could say it's similar to how human meat tastes also different depending on the human."